#morals

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.


Joseph Conrad


#clear #condemn #duty #his #integrity

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.


James F. Cooper


#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.


Joseph Lancaster


#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.


Harry Shearer


#bananas #brag #cheese #democrats #department

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.


Brandon Sanderson


#fantasy #morals #belief

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.


C.S. Lewis


#morals #nature #love

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.


Jodi Picoult


#decisions #ethics #law #love #morals

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.


Kentetsu Takamori


#inspirational #life-lessons #morals #inspirational

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.


Joseph Pulitzer


#deeply #elevation #having #i #i am

Books follow morals, and not morals books.


Theophile Gautier


#follow #morals